Tag: Israel-Iran war

In this episode, the guest is Middle East scholar and Iran expert Alex Grinberg. The conversation deals with the campaign against Iran, the future of the Islamic regime, and the question of who will declare the end of the war. Grinberg argues that the regime is not expected to fall officially, but rather to be gradually eliminated, and that Iran is expected to remain a unified country even on the day after.

In this episode, the guest is Omer Dank, a security researcher, to discuss the question of how wars come to an end. The conversation reviews the various ways wars have ended in the modern era, and examines the possible scenarios for the end of the current (hypothetical) war between the United States and Israel and Iran.

In this episode, Dr. Yaron Friedman joins the show to discuss the economic war being waged in parallel with the military conflict with Iran. The conversation focuses on the consequences of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz for the economies of Iran, the Gulf states, Iraq, and other regional actors, and examines who the main losers and winners are from the situation.

This episode's guest is Dr. Yaron Friedman from the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Haifa. The conversation deals with Iran's parade of strategic mistakes, which Dr. Friedman likens to a modern, but fake, Battle of Karbala. According to him, this is a pre-lost war that the Iranian leadership entered after believing its own propaganda.

In this episode, recorded as the military campaign against Iran was unfolding, the guest is Eran Efrat, an expert in energy economics. The conversation revolves around the immediate economic consequences of the conflict, primarily the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and examines the dramatic changes that could occur in the global economy the day after the fall of the ayatollahs' regime.

This episode's guest is Mor Shapira, a lecturer in Arabic at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the MEMRI institute. Shapira analyzes how the media and public in the Arab world and Iran reacted to the Israeli attack on Iran, the collapse of the Iranian deterrence myth, and the various narratives that developed following the events.